The new citizen participation uses "Citizen Science" in their hometown and nationwide to get your feedback on places. As a result, citizens are empowered to become active in a city worth living in to collect and share data themselves and to interact with scientists. This enables them to recognize the consequences of sealing, heat, water shortages, and a lack of biodiversity, and generally, how places in their own environment affect us all.

People must be given the opportunity to take part in meaningful projects themselves and to discover for themselves what climate, environmental, and transport policies really mean for them and their direct living environment. Together with the St. Pölten citizens' platform, we are starting a first test project for more citizen participation and feedback to the city administrations.

Our Outdoors is a citizen science project which aims to find out more about what you and others experience when you are in public spaces such as parks, beaches, canals, and town squares. It was developed by researchers in the Scottish Collaboration of Public Health Research and Practice (SCPHRP) at the University of Edinburgh in partnership with Sustrans, the MRC and citizens like yourself.

Improving environments with Citizen Science

By taking part in the research you will contribute will contribute to a national database, which will be used to rate and improve outdoor spaces across the country. he data can be used to create maps, reports and research for citizens, researchers and policy makers alike, to better understand how shared public spaces contribute to the health of communities and which need improving.

This Citizen Science App was specially designed for children and young people! With it, you and your friends can observe your surroundings and evaluate possible positive places or dangers, and thus contribute to improving them.

Improving public spaces with the youngest Citizen Scientst

Show the grown-ups how children see their environment: in which places do you feel comfortable and where do you feel unsafe? Where do you meet your friends? Which traffic light totally annoys you? Is there a bike path missing, and why is the sidewalk far too narrow? Rate public spaces with the app!

At the Spot-a-Bee Citizen Science project, the researchers of Cardiff University and the University of Glasgow, UK want to find out what plants, trees and shrubs are important for bees in city and town parks and gardens. People can help survey bee-friendly plants towns, cities and villages! If you spot a bee, use your mobile to take a picture of the plants they’re buzzing around and upload the spot in the Citizen Science app.

Explore the fascinating world of bees with Citizen Science

The Spot-A-Bee app allows you to observe and document any flowers, shrubs, climbers or trees and the bees on them. Additionally, it contains useful information on those plants and the most common bee species in the UK.
As a bonus, the researches behind Spot-A-Bee also want to understand how planting in urban spaces might affect the production of urban honey.